How would you inject humor into the game?

John_Candlebury · 2013-10-09T19:39:28.000Z

More things like the

Theres some buffoon in the way

Message we get when attempting to close a door in which we are standing will be great!

ramesesniblet · 2013-10-09T20:26:54.000Z

I think zombie celebrities would be OK, you’d have to make sure they’re unique though in case you get a dozen of them. It might have to be restricted to celebrities that live in New England though, like… Eliza Dushku?

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Mr_Epic_Cheese_Man · 2013-10-11T08:50:26.000Z

Donk Pockets.

vultures · 2013-10-11T14:41:46.000Z

Make God darn drugs funny, y’hear!
If you’re not badly halucinating or anything else for that matter, we could have a whole streamline of comments. Imagine the last few bullets for the .44 you’re about to feed the gun going all like “Nooo! NOOOO! %s please save us! PLEEEAAASEEE!!!”, books speaking to each other from their shelves, talking doll giving you the finger. I’m speaking in terms of abundantly nonsensical type of humor your flyers and other conceptual misconducts.
If someone wants to pin this to the floor with a subsequent topic, I’m sure there would be zounds of members pitching in. If we’re about anything it’s this, crack fumes and boolean crapp.

Birdie · 2013-10-11T15:32:51.000Z

A game telling you that you suck when you die isn’t funny.

FunsizeNinja123 · 2013-10-11T15:37:27.000Z

Birdie:

A game telling you that you suck when you die isn’t funny.

Yeah it is.

fartbutt · 2013-10-11T15:46:46.000Z

I like the humor in some of the item descriptions. I think that is the best way to do it. Zombies with odd items on them is also cool, adds some interesting flavor to them and what they were doing before they turned (stuff in houses too).

FunsizeNinja123 · 2013-10-11T15:48:07.000Z

I once found a bondage suit in a house. It fit me.

I found a wedding dress on a kid zed I killed in a school.

Also found a katana in a school locker.

Birdie · 2013-10-11T15:52:30.000Z

FunsizeNinja123:

[quote=“Birdie, post:11, topic:3431”]A game telling you that you suck when you die isn’t funny.

Yeah it is.[/quote]
I’m just gonna disagree with you again and leave it at that, insulting someone for the sake of humor is just plain rude.

Regional schools have some interesting spawns, hehe.

kevin.granade · 2013-10-11T17:30:50.000Z

Birdie:

A game telling you that you suck when you die isn’t funny.

My third game of FTL, I must have stumbled across a sector reveal event without realizing it, I thought I had triggered some easy mode by dying without making much progress, I was SUPER pissed.

However, it IS funny, just not for the player.

Rivet · 2013-10-11T18:13:56.000Z

Personally, I get a laugh out of games that call you on your failures.

But I don’t get frustrated or offended very easily by things of that nature.

GlyphGryph · 2013-10-11T18:49:55.000Z

Most of the original suggestions are… not funny. They just aren’t.

Also, we already do have some celebrity zombies! Actual Cannibal Shia Lebouf is more than enough on that front, I think.

Hyena_Grin · 2013-10-11T19:16:57.000Z

None of this appeals to my sense of humor.

I’d find every single item extremely grating. Just my opinion.

I think in a game like this the best humour is the humour you generate yourself. There are plenty of amusing situations you can get yourself into.

But at least in my opinion, I’d rather maintain the semi-serious mood of the game.

Mrnocamera · 2013-10-11T19:28:14.000Z

I get my kicks by killing off my good characters while running away from zombie dogs while naked with the Benny Hill theme playing.

kevin.granade · 2013-10-11T19:31:39.000Z

In addition to the absurdity the RNG throws up and seperately sensible decisions that combine to be truly ridiculous, there’s a good bit of room to work humor into the game with good descriptions of well everything, items, monsters, terrain, everything that has a description.

Another example of intentional humor, spawning child zombies with candy and drugs to offset the morale penalty from killing them.

I think there’ll be a lot of room for that kind of thing when we transition zombie spawns to having them actually wearing the clothes instead of just dropping them when you kill them.

Finally DW started a trend of “you can’t do that” error messages being lame jokes, which has been well received, so we’re sticking with that.

youtoo · 2013-10-11T20:23:36.000Z

I guess I will make the most unpopular mod in the history of cataclysm… Note to self… whenever tells me this sucks, take a deep breath and take it in stride. Don’t go all lazycat and get banned.

DataTrans · 2013-10-11T20:32:01.000Z

… I actually laughed at the “[NPC]'s head explodes!” error messages when a NPC glitched out repeatedly.

John_Candlebury · 2013-10-11T21:01:16.000Z

[quote=“GlyphGryph, post:18, topic:3431”]Most of the original suggestions are… not funny. They just aren’t.

Also, we already do have some celebrity zombies! Actual Cannibal Shia Lebouf is more than enough on that front, I think.[/quote]

Actually what happened to Cannibal Shia Lebouf i havent seen him in a while is him still in the game?

Mrnocamera · 2013-10-11T21:02:37.000Z

He’s not in the Debug Spawn Menu.

I wanna see his description, dammit!

vultures · 2013-10-13T15:10:35.000Z

Hey, I have an idea - drinking gets you in all sorts of trouble, unless you’re a Drunken Master adept.
Actually swinging at a zombie shows “Kiss the Zombie (Y/N)” line of jokes.
Stumbling upon a cougar would ask you “Play with the Kitty? (Y/N)” …
And there are tremendous possibilities to prank on the character while he’s attempting to craft anything dead drunk. God save him/her if there’s a
tatooing kit coded in, the morale penalties would last for months.